Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman
Marianne Kinkel
University of Illinois Press, 2011
In the struggle to find out what makes people unique, artists of the twentieth century entered the field of physical anthropology. In 1930, Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to research and create sculptures of all races of mankind, of which there were believed to be more than 160.
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